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...Supreme Court has shorn the Industrial Court of much of its power, Governor Davis thinks the opportune moment has come. He announced that he was considering an extra session of the legislature to repeal the Industrial Court law. Said he: " There is no reason for further squandering the gorgeous sums of money which the State has spent on a court which does not function and is now virtually without power and authority. Its abolition would, in my opinion, save the taxpayers more than $100,000 after paying for the expense of the special session...
...Significance. The earliest dreams of mankind concern an imagined Earthly Paradise. Here is the Earthly Paradise of one of the most brilliant, varied and active minds of our time. The prescription will not suit all palates, but should, nevertheless, prove stimulating and provocative to anyone not a moron. A gorgeous but rigid dream?the acme of possible scientific and eugenic perfection?a fascinating and plausible illusion. And yet?in spite of all the merits of the book?one wonders at times. Can Heaven-on-Earth, if possible, prove quite so efficiently readymade...
...plot concerns a band of crooks who pretend to be Hindu mystics to swindle Vivienne Segal out of her jewels?which gives opportunity for one gorgeous stage-set and a lot of music full of temple-bells and incense-smells and the rest of the allure of the East as known to a Broadway orchestra...
RAIN?Jeanne Eagels knocks the spirit of the blue-laws for a row of foreign missionaries in a gorgeous reductio ad absurdum of inbred Puritanism, accompanied onstage by a tropical downpour that makes you wonder why you forgot your umbrella...
...none of these performances can be compared to, say, Abie's Irish Rose as a solid box-office attraction-but all in all Mr. Shakespeare did well. The season has also seen exceptional acting. Leaving aside the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre and its demonstration of what gorgeous teamwork a repertory company can display-Jane Cowl as Juliet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, Alice Brady in Zander the Great, Katharine Cornell and Haidee Wright in Will Shakespeare, Helen Menken in Seventh Heaven-on the masculine side, John Barrymore's Hamlet, Rudolph Schildkraut's performance...